Tonight I'm snowed in by a good old-fashioned Noreaster, and I've decided now is as a good a time as any return to the Whereproject. We're supposed to get 20-30 inches and wind gusts of 50 mph (close to 70 on the Cape), so I'll probably be hunkered done here at home until tomorrow night. I stopped by Home Depot and Shaws to this afternoon to buy groceries and a shovel, and both places where complete madhouses--everyone storing up to ride out the storm.
My hiatus from blogging has been longer than I intended, but the Christmas break and beginning of the semester brought more work than I expected: I submitted an webtext on place blogging to Kairos; I finished designing my First-Year Writing seminar for this spring; I set up a small web hosting business (emphasis on the small) to serve friends and family; I designed a site for Bob Massie to keep folks updated on his upcoming liver transplant; and tonight I upgrade the Whereproject to Drupal 4.5.2 (from 4.3). So I've been busy, but now I hope to get back into a steadier schedule with more time for blogging. We'll see...
(Update: it is now officially insane outside. We must have a foot of snow aready and the wind is ferocious. This could be the best blizzard I've seen since I moved to Boston. It may not set records for snow, but what we have is blowing around like crazy.)
Noreasters
When I lived in Boston, all winter weather was measured by "The Blizzard of Seventy-Eight." I missed this -- I was in my first year of college in England -- but so many people went into so much detail about what it was like that it was almost as though I'd lived through it.
Sounds like this storm might be giving it a little competition, though. We have nothing so exciting here: just more damn fog.
Comparable, but with a few differences
According to the weatherman, this storm was comparable to the storm of '78, but with a few important differences:
However, this storm had it's own remarkable qualities:
Things have calmed down now and we're beginning the task of shovelling out. It's going to stay cold this week, so it looks like I'll be able to get some cross-country skiing in before it melts.